SmartOn Announces India Operations

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November 7, 2013

SmartOn Learning has announced its official launch into the Indian market. With offices in New York and Hyderabad, the Company specializes in providing new-age career courses, developed in collaboration with leading industry partners and Universities. The programs are offered in blended format (combination of online & class-room based). SmartOn Learning offers world-class technology platform to facilitate blended/online learning along with career diagnostics and continuing education solutions.

Starting with the Indian market, SmartOn Learning plans to tap international markets subsequently. Based on the “plug-and-play cloud based platform”, SmartOn Learning provides a platform for higher education institutes catering to new age skills. SmartOn Learning aims to make quality content & adoption of technology easy and affordable.

Speaking on the occasion, Chaitanya Chitta, Co-founder of the company stated, “Higher Education is going through significant transformation due to the market forces and advent of new technologies. We see a huge opportunity in India to push edtech and program innovation in new age careers by working with Universities and Colleges for better outcomes of the students.”

SmartOn has successfully launched its first program in collaboration with Pearl Academy. Sharad Mehra, CEO Pearl Academy has said “As India’s leading Art, Design & Fashion education provider Pearl Academy constantly innovates it’s offering to achieve superior student outcomes. We are excited to work with SmartOn as they bring specialized programs using technology into the higher education classrooms.”

Rakshit Kejriwal, Co-founder of SmartOn concluded saying “In SmartOn we have a great team of global professionals with world-class backgrounds & experiences. We are bringing some of the best education and technology companies across the world to collaborate with us, so that our students acquire a competitive edge. Finally, we are very excited to offer quality international education at Indian cost.”

Research has shown that less than 10% of MBA graduates are employable and 83% of engineering graduates are unfit for employment. About 50% of the universities have infrastructure deficiencies and near about 40% of Universities faculty position remain vacant. SmartOn Learning programmes are targeting careers where there is a significant real-time demand and enabling students to learn in an interactive way to acquire effective and relevant knowledge.

Indraprastha Global School organises Social Awareness Week

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November 7, 2013

Indraprastha Global School has organised a social awareness week Programme with the theme ‘Sharing and Caring’ for the underprivileged. The initiative aimed at crafting students with moral values and ethics which is ahead of Education. The programme ran between 25^TH October 2013 to 1^st November 2013, this nobel initiative provides students the opportunity to understand that ‘Orphanages are the Only Places that Leave One Feelings Empty and Full at the Same Time’, IPGS Noida, aims at providing quality world-class education deeply rooted in Sanskaras or traditional values, imbibing student with core ethical nature.

Under the programme ‘Social Awareness Week’ student visited NGO and an Orphanage; this confronted them with the reality and encouraged them to help the underprivileged. Student participated with High Spirit and full enthusiasm, also planned acts to entertain students at orphanage. The programme had special assemblies planned on the theme, students at orphanage were heartened to showcase their talent and enjoy forgetting the disparities. Indraprastha Global School students also fired up the vicinity with celebrating Diwali with students of orphanage, other activities like thanks giving, Deepavali Puja were also some of the highlights of the Programme.

According to Principal, Ritu Gupta, It is easy to give education but the much harder and more important challenge for a school is to develop in children a deep, abiding commitment to these values. This Social campaign is an initiative to make students free from any kind of disparities, with modern perspective and cultural approach.

Students made their way to Orphanage carrying Banners stating the mission of the Campaign Help Others, Give Respect Get Respect, Save Trees and Save Energy. Students were happy to spend quality time with other children spreading awareness on social issues. They make merry with children by entertaining them with amazing acts. They discovered happiness gets doubled when it is shared and celebrated with full heart. Benevolence and humanity inflates ones character and make one a better human.

Karnataka: State Govt, NSDC to Implement NVEQF Across 100 Schools

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October 31, 2013

The Government of Karnataka and National Skill Development Corporation together has announced the signing of the MoU for the implementation of National Vocational Education Qualifications Framework across 100 schools in 5 trades at Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan in Bangalore.

The Government of India had brought out a revised Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Vocational training in Secondary Education by integrating employability education into School Education in September 2011. The scheme is operated within the National Vocational Education Qualifications Framework (NVEQF), which establishes a system of clear educational pathways from school to higher education while providing certification of vocational skills.

The project has been approved for the state of Karnataka by MHRD, GOI and accordingly Karnataka will be implementing the National Vocational Educational Qualification Framework (NVEQF) from the academic year 2013. The aim is to start the project at Level 1 (Class 9th) and Level 1 and 2 (Class 11th) in about 100 government schools in Karnataka with the goal to make students employable when they complete secondary education. The Project will be jointly funded by Central Government and the State Government.

NSDC and some partners are already involved in implementation of this scheme in the States of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

Commenting on the occasion, Rajiv Mathur, Principal, Standards and Quality Assurance, National Skill Development Corporation, said, “We hope to deliver training modules which are of highest standards. It is imperative to harness skills right at the education stage so that the youth are trained and is made employable right from the beginning. We see huge potential in the youth of Karnataka and we will ensure that they receive all the necessary training and education for a better future.”

Recently NSDC had also launched the STAR scheme(Standard Training Assessment and Reward) for promotional purposes envisages that a monetary reward that will in essence financially help those who wish to acquire a new skill or upgrade their skills to a higher level. While the scheme envisages covering a million skilled people under this scheme, sufficient processes have also been pre-defined to ensure that the quality of the skill imparted is world-class. The monetary reward is strictly depended on obtaining a certificate that will be issued by qualified assessors after necessary tests have been passed. The skills are also benchmarked to National Occupational Standards that have been developed by NSDC with the support of the Sector Skill Councils.

India’s Top Business Schools of 2014

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October 30, 2013

India’s Top Business Schools of 2014 digitalLEARNING is set to announce the Rankings for India’s Top Business Schools. Applications are invited from institutes conducting 2- year full-time MBA/ approved PGDM programmes. It is mandatory for applicant institutes to have conducted placement activities for at least one batch. Interested institutes can write to campusnews@digitallearning.in for obtaining the ranking questionnaire. You may also call on +91 88606 61634 for further queries

A week long Vigilance awareness programme begins in IIIT-A

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October 29, 2013

The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad ( IIIT-A ) initiates week long vigilance awareness programme from October 28. It is an attempt for instilling an environment of transparency and confidence within the system. With this regard a webpage has also been created. The same was inaugurated by the IIIT-A Director MD Tiwari.

Several measures has been taken in pursuant to the instruction of the Central Vigilance Commission as said by the the Chief vigilance officer Anurika Vaish. During this vigilance awareness week several competitive and non-competitive activities would be conducted and also some activities are being organized to create awareness about corruption in the public.

The institute is also conducting various competitions like essay, quiz and debate on this occasion . In this context the institute had displayed banners and posters at prime locations as a result to mark the occasion to create awareness among the people.

Teachers of Jamia Milia Islamia recommends the next VC to be an academician of high repute

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October 29, 2013

The teachers of Jamia Milia Islamia have written a letter to the President of India requesting appointment of a person of high repute and academician to the post of the Vice Chancellor of the university.

A team of at least 322 teachers of Jamia signed the letter putting forward their requirement to the president which states that the next Vice Chancellor to be appointed should have minimum 10 years of experience as a professor in the university system or in the field of reputed research and academic organizations.

According to media reports, the executive council of the university has suggested the names of Justice Aftab Alam and Professor G N Qazi, current vice-chancellor of Jamia Hamdard as nominees to the three-member committee.

Government to rush Vice Chancellor appointments prior to assembly polls

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October 29, 2013

The HRD ministry takes a unique method of fast track appointment of Vice Chancellors across 12 Central universities. These appointed Vice Chancellors will take over the office in March 2014 before the assembly polls that are a few months away. The Ministry has decided to go back to the old ways of appointing VCs through a common advertisement which was done in 2009 to elect 15 VCs of the created central universities. The advertisement as a method was abandoned when VC’s of reputed universities like Delhi university, JNU etc were elected.

According to ministry officials, the advertisement for the same will appear in a few days time which will ask candidates to apply online and give their preference of universities. This process will help the ministry to shorten the process.

The Vice chancellors of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan and Srinagar will be appointed. Three state universities which were upgraded to central universities in 2009, Hari Singh Gour University, Madhya Pradesh; Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Uttarakhand and Guru Ghasidas University, Chhattisgarh will also get their new VCs.

IIT Delhi brings light to South Delhi slum

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October 29, 2013

The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi has taken up a project of illuminating the slums of Munirka of South Delhi, through a solar lighting project in collaboration with My Sister Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NGO).

The project which is titled as “Liter of Light” is a very simple way of generating electricity with mere plastic bottles filled with water and suspended from the roof with the concept of refraction of light from denser to rarer medium. Electricity is generated from the light of the sun.

Three households in the slums has already been provided 55 W of electricity which was done by the students but since the procedure is a simple one, so it has been explained to the community member who can themselves work on completing the project.

In the dark and dim streets of the slums of Munirka, this project of IIT Delhi, has not only lightened the streets and houses of the slums, but has also kindled a ray of hope in the hearts of the people.

Nine departments for tribal languages in Ranchi University

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October 29, 2013

The Ranchi University has taken an important step of promoting the tribal languages for which they have planned to introduced nine tribal language department as part of the Tribal Regional Language (TRL). The proposal has already been approved by the Ranchi University authorities in the month of August this year. To ensure its implementation, a nine member high level committee has been formed chaired by Shivshankar Oraon.

The committee has planned improve the infrastructure to create different departments for these nine languages which will also help to generated new posts for the teaching and non-teaching staff in all departments.

Though introduction of these nine tribal languages are not new, but were taught in one TRL department which becomes difficult to manage all the students in one department for all the languages. So this decision of making different departments for the nine tribal languages have been taken .

The nine tribal languages include five tribal languages which are Kudukh, Ho, Mundari, Khadia and Santhali, while other 4 languages are the regional languages which are Nagpuri, Panchpargania , Kortha and Kurmali.

The decision taken by the Ranchi University authority is highly appreciated as it will encourage the tribals of Jharkhand to promote their language and give them an identity.

West Bengal forms Education Commission to improve state education sector

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October 29, 2013

Policy Initiatives Higher Education in 2012

The higher education department of West Bengal has constituted an education commission for preparing a roadmap to improvise the education sector of the state over the next two decades. The education commission is a 12 member panel which comprises of eminent teachers and scientists. It is headed by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research director general Samir K Brahmachari and the panel includes river expert Kalyan Rudra, Amitava Bose, former director, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and Shantanu Maharaj of the Ramakrishna Mission. The commission aims to highlight the areas which needs improvement and to provide appropriate solution to it.

This commission is formed keeping Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee’s “vision 2020 and 2030” education road map to “take the state towards education glory” in view.

The panel will cover elementary, secondary, higher secondary, higher education, mass education, technical and vocational education, non-formal education and madrassa education of the state as well. The commission was launched on October 1 and will start to function once the festive season ends.

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